In 1765 David Ogden purchased from Burnet and Skinner the Great Boonton Tract. James Bollen, whose bordering "plantation" stretching south toward the Tourne was described as "situate on the fork of Rockaway with an Indian plantation in it," mapped his 1,507 acres (6 km 2) in 1715. 48, which contained 1,430 acres (580 ha) of fields and woodlands. History īoonton Township's recorded history began about 1710 when William Penn, the Quaker land speculator, located in the northern valley his Lot No. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Boonton Township as the 4th best place to live in the state in its rankings of the "New Jersey's Top Towns 2011–2012. The settlement was originally called "Boone-Towne" in 1761 in honor of the Colonial Governor Thomas Boone. The borough of Mountain Lakes was formed from portions of the township on March 3, 1924. īoonton Township was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1867, from portions of Pequannock Township. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,380, an increase of 117 (2.7%) from the 2010 census count of 4,263, which in turn reflected a decline of 24 (−0.6%) from 4,287 in the 2000 census. Boonton Township ( / ˈ b u t ən/ ) is a township in Morris County, in the U.S.
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